I am in Edinburgh, capital of Scotland, today. All talk is of the vote on Scottish independence next week … so, I thought I would make a Union Jack Visio shape that can be automatically changed, using Shape Data values, to represent the countries left in the union!
The Union Jack is comprised of the flags of England, Scotland and Ireland … sorry Wales, you are only a principality. Yes, I know that Northern Ireland is a province, but it was decided that St Patrick’s Saltire should be kept even after Eire got independence.
Note that a single country flag has an aspect ratio of 5:3, but a multi-country union flag has an aspect ratio of 2:1.
You can see the result of having the different countries included using the Shape Data panel. There are also some relevant hyperlinks on the shape.
You can download the Visio 2013 file from here : Union Jacked.vsdx and the pre-Visio 2013 file here : Union Jacked.vsd
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